Jess
@kangaroopete.bsky.social
She/ her. Cat Lady & Woolgatherer Extraordinaire. Pearls of Nutcaseness. Neuro-spice level: ADHD
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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
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i hate that AI is such a buzzword these days because it's all linear algebra soup and sometimes the soup is actually extremely good. GFS's reduced accuracy in previous events (hurricane sandy, notably) from computational limitations has cost lives. 99.7% reduction with comparable accuracy is insane.
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
i hate that AI is such a buzzword these days because it's all linear algebra soup and sometimes the soup is actually extremely good. GFS's reduced accuracy in previous events (hurricane sandy, notably) from computational limitations has cost lives. 99.7% reduction with comparable accuracy is insane.
Giggled at San Nerk Yankees, lost it at Bostoo Yook Yarters (cubs logo)
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Giggled at San Nerk Yankees, lost it at Bostoo Yook Yarters (cubs logo)
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The job market is vanishingly small, and programs keep cranking out PhDs to apply to jobs that they simply cannot get- and they often spend years warning them that the jobs will not exist! And then the jobless blame race and gender, when the issue is really that they imagined they’d be an exception!
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The job market is vanishingly small, and programs keep cranking out PhDs to apply to jobs that they simply cannot get- and they often spend years warning them that the jobs will not exist! And then the jobless blame race and gender, when the issue is really that they imagined they’d be an exception!
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😂facts!
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
😂facts!
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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Sometimes you write an artifact description and it feels so dirty. Describing a urinometer float and had to put "with a dark bulbous head" BECAUSE IT HAS ONE, DAMMIT!
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Sometimes you write an artifact description and it feels so dirty. Describing a urinometer float and had to put "with a dark bulbous head" BECAUSE IT HAS ONE, DAMMIT!
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One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
Also, after the Port Arthur massacre (35 dead, 24 wounded) the Australian government tightened gun laws and did a massive gun buyback program. And this was basically the second shooting where the dead was in double digits (according to wikipedia there was one other in the 70s that killed 10).
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Also, after the Port Arthur massacre (35 dead, 24 wounded) the Australian government tightened gun laws and did a massive gun buyback program. And this was basically the second shooting where the dead was in double digits (according to wikipedia there was one other in the 70s that killed 10).
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You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
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When you have the plague but you want to keep it festive…
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
When you have the plague but you want to keep it festive…
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"pent up demand for rail options" also explains much of the success of Heated Rivalry
seriously though, there is very clearly pent up demand for rail options and every reason to build out as much new rail as possible.
December 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"pent up demand for rail options" also explains much of the success of Heated Rivalry
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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I could use a laugh this morning, so: what are y'all's favorite Far Side cartoons?
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I could use a laugh this morning, so: what are y'all's favorite Far Side cartoons?
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How much money is spent (read: wasted) on curriculum "products" that change constantly and don't work, instead of relying on the training, knowledge and professionalism of great teachers?
How much do we waste on standardized tests that teach nothing, do nothing, reveal nothing?
How much do we waste on standardized tests that teach nothing, do nothing, reveal nothing?
"Some [teachers] complained about the effect of technology on students’ stamina for reading and interest in books. But more pointed toward the curriculum products their schools had purchased from major publishers."
That about sums it up. "Curriculum products" are killing education.
That about sums it up. "Curriculum products" are killing education.
The most important story of 2025 that we're not talking about enough (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
How much money is spent (read: wasted) on curriculum "products" that change constantly and don't work, instead of relying on the training, knowledge and professionalism of great teachers?
How much do we waste on standardized tests that teach nothing, do nothing, reveal nothing?
How much do we waste on standardized tests that teach nothing, do nothing, reveal nothing?
This is literally me this morning.
The cat woke me up and I can’t go back to sleep, guess it’s hockey sluts time!
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is literally me this morning.
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'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition
December 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition
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Hey y’all! Are you, like me, super annoyed at Apple’s iOS 26.1 update and its awful Liquid Glass crap? Are you wishing your phone could just go back to looking like it did 48 hours ago instead of being forced to adopt the phone aesthetic equivalent of a Donald Trump bathroom? Then check this thread!
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hey y’all! Are you, like me, super annoyed at Apple’s iOS 26.1 update and its awful Liquid Glass crap? Are you wishing your phone could just go back to looking like it did 48 hours ago instead of being forced to adopt the phone aesthetic equivalent of a Donald Trump bathroom? Then check this thread!
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“If you’ve got autism or ADHD just get into the habit of setting loads of reminders for yourself”
The reminders:
The reminders:
Well I've got no fucking idea what this reminder was for
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
“If you’ve got autism or ADHD just get into the habit of setting loads of reminders for yourself”
The reminders:
The reminders:
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
Suspiria. I fucking hated that movie
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Suspiria. I fucking hated that movie
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Awww my husband is not a Les Mis fan. He’d never seen a staged production and he was like “the singers were excellent, it gave off lots of feels, the production was cool. I hated it. Bad history, maudlin melodrama, what is it really *about*, it’s not even deep!”
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Awww my husband is not a Les Mis fan. He’d never seen a staged production and he was like “the singers were excellent, it gave off lots of feels, the production was cool. I hated it. Bad history, maudlin melodrama, what is it really *about*, it’s not even deep!”